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MIDTERM TEST
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KHOA NGOẠI NGỮ Môn: Reading 1
NGÀNH TIẾNG ANH THƯƠNG MẠI Ngành: Tiếng Anh Thương mại
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút
Ngày thi: 13/11/2021 Số phách

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SECTION 1
Questions 1 to 10

BUILDING CHARACTER
People change
Were you nervous when you were younger, but now you’re more confident? or perhaps dishonesty
used to be your weakness, but now you’re a more honest person. This is because your character
and identity develop as you go through life. The experiences you have, the decisions you make,
and the problems you overcome all shape your character. For instance, when faced with taking an
important exam you might be told “Don’t worry, this kind of experience builds character. “When
you first hear the statement, you may not understand or appreciate its full meaning.
Don’t worry!
What the statement means it that by coping with the stress, you will learn something new and
valuable. For example, even if you don’t pass an exam this time, you’ll know how it feels to take
the exam and you’ll have more chance of succeeding next time and meeting your objective. Also,
even when something bad happens to you, something that feels painful or frustrating, such as
fighting with your friends, you’ll learn how bad it feels, and you’ll also learn how to avoid this
kind of problem in the future.
Be positive
So, the next time you lose a game, or fight with friends, or have a big exam, remember that there is
always something positive that you can learn. That’s building character!

Read the passage and answer the questions

1. What is the article about?
A. Building
B. Personality
C. Difficulty

2. What is the purpose of the article?

A. To give advice
B. To give a warning
C. To give instructions

Read the passage again and decide if the following sentences are True (T) or False (F)
3. All nervous people will become confident. ___________
4. Your personality now is probably different from your personality many years ago. __________
5. Being honest is a weakness. ___________
6. Your decisions have no influence on your character. ___________
7. You learn valuable lessons from dealing with stress. ___________
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8. Failing an exam can have a positive effect on your life. ___________
9. According to the article, you should try to fight with your friends. ___________
10. All of your problems will go away as you build character. ___________

SECTION 2
Questions 11 to 18

MY FIRST POST!
Hi everyone. I am an international student studying at an American university, and I’ve decided to
keep a blog about what I am experiencing in the States. I hope it will help people who want to
study here in the future.

The university
Let me tell you about the university where I’m studying. My university is sometimes described as a
city, meaning that it has a large population, most of whom are either university students or faculty
members. The number of students is approximately 45,000-and that’s only counting full-timers!

The campus
As you can imagine, the campus is massive. To meet the demand of so many students, the
university campus has many resources. The main library is open 24 hours a day, and there are other
smaller libraries, which have more specialized books for various subjects. There’s also a writing
center, a math guidance room, science labs, computer labs-you name it, the campus has it.
Other facilities

Aside from academic facilities, the campus also has student dorms, fitness gyms (yes, many of
those), swimming pools, an ice rink, a stadium, an auditorium, a concert hall, a botanical garden,
cafes, an international center-even a bowling alley! I told you this place was huge.
OK, that’s enough about the university for now. Next time, I update, I’ll primarily talk about my
life here. See you then!

Read the passage and decide if the following sentences are True (T) or False (F). If it is false,
please correct it.

11. The writer is not from the US. ____________

=> ____________________________________________________________________________
12. The writer will be at the university for many years. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
13. The university accepts part-time students. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
14. The smaller libraries stay open 24 hours a day. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
15. Students can live on the campus. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
16. The quality of teaching at the university is high. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
17. It’s expensive to be a student at the university. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________
18. The writer will write more in the future. ____________
=> ____________________________________________________________________________

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SECTION 3
Questions 19 to 33
A MICROSCOPE IN THE KITCHEN

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door (19); hip-waders hanging in the
closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a was sitting (20) microscope on the
kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is (21) a marine biologist. Our household might have
been described as uncooperative (22). Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of
breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of (23) the tides. When
the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be
standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

I have great respect for my mother (24). I learned early that the moon affected the tides. Mom was
always waiting for a full or new moon, when low tide would be lower than average and high tide
higher than average. The moon being (25) aligned with Earth and the sun when full or new, so its
(26) gravity combines with the sun’s gravity to create an even stronger gravitational pull. I knew
that it took about eight hours for the tides to change from high to low, sixteen hours for a
complete cycle of tides (27). I didn’t have to wait to learn these things in school. In our house they
were everyday knowledge.

[1] Often, my brother and I (28), joined our mother on her adventures into tidal lands. [2] At the
very low tides of the full moon, when almost all the water was sucked away, we (29) found the
hideaways where crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins hid in order not to be seen. (30) [3]
Sometimes we would dig with shovels in the mud, where yellow and white worms lived in their
leathery tunnels. 13 (31)

For plankton tows, we would stand on the bridge while Mom lowered a cone-shaped net that is often
used by marine biologists (32). Then we would patiently wait. After a while, she would pull up the
net, and we would go home. Later, we would see her sitting at the kitchen table, peering at a drop
of water (33) through the lenses of her microscope from the bottle—watching the thousands of tiny
swimming organisms.

For each phrase or clause in bold in the bracket in the passage, choose the alternative you consider
best to fill in the corresponding/equivalent.

19. Chose the best answer.

A. Individual Question
B. NO CHANGE
C. waiting, by the back door,
D. waiting by the back door,

20. Choose the best answer.

A. NO CHANGE
B. would sit
C. sitting
D. sat

21. Choose the best answer.

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A. NO CHANGE
B. As my mother’s interest is science, she is
C. My mother’s occupation is that of
D. My mother is

22. Which choice would most effectively introduce the rest of this paragraph?
A. NO CHANGE
B. There seemed to be no explanation for why Mom ran our household the way she did.
C. Our household didn’t run according to a typical schedule.
D. Mom ran our household in a most spectacular manner.

23. Choose the best answer.

A. NO CHANGE
B. was defenseless in the face of
C. depended on
D. trusted in

24. Which choice most effectively signals the shift from the preceding paragraph to this paragraph?
E. NO CHANGE
F. Our lives were likewise affected by the phases of the moon.
G. A relationship exists between the moon and the tides.
H. The moon is a mysterious orb afloat in the sky.

25. Choose the best answer.

A. NO CHANGE
B. Since the moon is
C. The moon is
D. The moon,

26. Choose the best answer.

E. NO CHANGE
F. one's
G. it's
H. its'

27. If the writer were to delete the phrase “sixteen hours for a complete cycle of tides” from the
preceding sentence (ending the sentence with a period), the essay would primarily lose a detail that:
A. shows how the narrator’s interests are different from the mother’s interests.
B. contradicts a point made earlier in the paragraph.
C. helps establish the setting for the essay.
D. displays the narrator’s knowledge of tides.

28.Choose the best answer.

A. NO CHANGE
B. brother, and I,
C. brother, and I
D. brother and I

29. Choose the best answer.

E. NO CHANGE
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F. away. Then we
G. away. We
H. away; we

30. Choose the best answer.

E. NO CHANGE
F. hideouts where crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins concealed and hid themselves.
G. places where crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins were stashed away.
H. hiding places of crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins.

31.Which of the following sequences of sentences makes this paragraph most logical?
A. NO CHANGE
B. 2, 1, 3
C. 2, 3, 1
D. 3, 1, 2

32. Given that all of the choices are true, which one provides information that is relevant and that
makes the rest of this paragraph understandable?
E. NO CHANGE
F. had a specimen bottle attached to its smaller end.
G. was woven from cotton and nylon material.
H. was shaped like a geometric figure.

33.The best placement for the underlined portion would be:

A. where it is now.
B. after the word lenses.
C. after the word microscope.
D. after the word bottle (but before the dash).

THIS IS THE END OF THE TEST.

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MID-TERM TEST
ANSWER SHEET

Test: Reading 1
Candidate name: _________________________
Class: _________________________________ Candidate No: _________________________
Duration: 45 minutes _____________________ Date: ________ November 2021

SECTION 1 (1-10) SECTION 2 (11 to 18)

1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
4. 14.
5. 15.
6. 16.
7. 17.
8. 18.
9.
10.
SECTION 3 (19 to 33)
19. 27.
20. 28.
21. 29.
22. 30.
23. 31.
24. 32.
25. 33.
26.

Total: /33 marks